Magical Realism

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

'यार जादूगर' हिंदी साहित्य की मुख्य धारा के उपन्यासों में विषय-वस्तु के लिहाज से एकदम नया और चौंकाने वाली कहानी है। कल्पना की जमीन पर बोया गया ऐसा यथार्थ जो मानवीय संबंधों और उसके मनोविज्ञान पर दार्शनिकता की गाँठ खोलता रेशा.

“From exactly midnight until daybreak, the Namiya General Store advice box will be reopening for one night only.” When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s...

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story....

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

Originally published in Malayalam as Meesha, S. Hareesh's Moustache is a contemporary classic mixing magic, myth, and metaphor into a tale of far-reaching resonance....

Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil and its relevance to our everyday dilemmas....

Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger --...

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls....

After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he quickly discovers the locals have other plans....

Chandrakanta is a timeless tale of love, mystery, and royal intrigue set in an enchanting world of magic and adventure.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child....

When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology....

Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would....

Machado de Assis’ classic novel, the precursor of Latin American fiction, is finally rendered as a stunningly relevant work for 21st-century audiences....

On the eve of his 90th birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit - he has purchased hundreds of women - he asks a madam for her assistance....

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery....

He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it....

"Desconcertante, lista a inquietar a la crítica, está ya en los escaparates la primera novela de Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, que transcurre...

When Ishmael places an advertisement for pupils with “an earnest desire to save the world”, he does not expect a child to answer him. But 12-year-old Julie Gerchak is undaunted by Ishmael’s reluctance to teach someone so young and convinces him to take her on as his next student....

When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust....

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wind Knows My Name comes a mesmerizing tale of two passionate souls who share one magical night that defies all rational explanation.

Longing to escape his island home, a boy named Hodaka runs away during his first summer of high school to find a new life in Tokyo. As rain falls for days on end and Hodaka struggles to adjust, he meets a girl named Hina who holds a mysterious power: With a single prayer, she can part the clouds...

When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she’s being haunted. The listing—a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama—is the perfect chance....

Scarlett Fernsby holds the world record for shortest relationships. Mostly thanks to overprotective parents and an interfering brother, every attempt at dating has been a disaster. When her whole family is out of town for six glorious months, she knows it's time to find love. What she didn't count on was Wade Hendrix. Her older brother's best friend. He's even worse than her brother. He's soon crashing every date of hers, and Scarlett's beginning to wonder if he's made it his life's mission to annoy her. Wade is a firefighter with a hero complex; she doesn't want to be his pity problem.

Magical realism meets historical fiction in this epic novel, loosely based on real events occurring in the first years of white incursion into South Australia from the 1830s to the 1870s. From Ireland to the land that would become Australia, Nature's Fool crosses oceans, lands, and time in its exploration of identity, place, and belonging.

Carol ha sufrido una gran pérdida, y lleva el día a día como puede con la ayuda de sus amigos: María, Lucas, Félix y Luis, quienes también tienen sus propios problemas. Sin embargo, todo toma un giro inesperado cuando aparece en escena Juan, un amigo de la infancia de Carol que dejó el barrio hace veinte años y ha vuelto para montar un restaurante.

A detour. A chance encounter. Two women who alter the pages of each other’s story. Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she’s fully recovered but is left feeling that something is missing from her life. Something big. Impulsively, she...

Lara Lington er midt i tyverne, og hendes liv er noget værre rod! På helt uforklarlig vis har ånden fra Laras nyligt afdøde 105 år gamle grandtante Sadie materialiseret sig i form af en livsglad, jævnaldrende charleston-dansende pige, og hun har et særligt ønske, før hun med ro kan gå over på den anden side: Hun vil have Laras hjælp til at finde et forsvundet halssmykke. I takt med at Lara tilbringer tid sammen med Sadie, bliver livet mere glamourøst og sjovt, mens deres skattejagt udvikler sig til også at være en søgen efter kærlighed.

Rimasto orfano a Canton e portato in Inghilterra da un misterioso tutore, Robin Swift credeva che Babel fosse un paradiso. Fino a che non è diventata una prigione... Può uno studente lottare contro un impero?

Als Gerda ihm begegnet, ist sie überrascht: Kein finsterer Schatten, kein kaltes Grauen – sondern ein Mädchen. Dieses Wesen nimmt sie mit auf eine Reise. Dorthin, wo Zeit und Schmerz keine Bedeutung mehr haben. Dorthin, wo wir erkennen, wer wir wirklich sind. In zwölf fein verwobenen Erzählungen begegnen Menschen dem Tod und finden einen neuen Blick auf das Leben. Ein Buch über das große Loslassen – und das stille Heimkommen zu sich selbst.

Liefde in tijden van cholera is een prachtige, tijdloze literaire klassieker en naast Honderd jaar eenzaamheid het bekendste werk van Nobelprijswinnaar Gabriel García Márquez Liefde in tijden van cholera is het onvergetelijke liefdesverhaal van Florentino Ariza en Fermina Daza. Op ongeëvenaarde wijze worden grote thema's als liefde, dood, ouderdom, noodlot en begeerte samengebracht in een mild en menselijk universum. In de pers 'Márquez op z'n sensueelst.

Als die beiden dank dieser Eigenschaft gezwungen sind, ihre Heimat Hals über Kopf zu verlassen, landen sie unplanmäßig auf einer windgepeitschten Insel vor der Küste Neufundlands. Lita freundet sich schnell mit der gehörlosen Tochter der Gastgeber an, der einzigartigen Oona McGregor. Als sie den auf der Insel lang herbeigesehnten Mr. Saito das erste Mal begegnet, der mit seinem Wanderkino Nachrichten aus aller Welt zu ihnen bringt, ahnt Lita nicht, dass er ihr Leben für immer verändern wird.

Fans of Black Cake and Family Lore will be captivated by this sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man’s journey to wholeness—both emotionally and physically—is shaped by the lands of his childhood and those of his ancestors, still reeling from the effects of colonialism and immigration.

Eniiyi wird an dem Tag geboren, an dem ihre Tante Monife begraben wird. Aufgrund der unheimlichen Ähnlichkeit mit Monife ist sich die Familie sicher: Sie ist ihre Reinkarnation. Die Frauen in Eniiyis Familie finden seit Generationen schon keinen Frieden, weil sie ihre geliebten Männer verlieren. Laut der Yorubapriesterin Mama G ist ein Fluch am Werk, der ihnen allen zum Verhängnis wird. Bleibt die Frage: Kann wenigstens Eniiyi dem Familienfluch und dem mysteriösen Schicksal, das Monife ereilt hat, entkommen?

It's been three years since Mila Thomas's brother Jed went missing and his case went cold. Since then, Mila has fled town, running from the voices of the dead that reach her from the depths of the old family bog, afraid she would hear her brother's among them.

Olivia Pennington has spent her whole life competing with Logan Alexander—and losing. From spelling bees to science fairs, he's always been one step ahead, snagging the trophies, titles, accolades, and now … he's after the promotion she desperately wanted. As if that's not bad enough, Logan also moved into the apartment she had her heart set on. Logan's been secretly falling in love with Olivia since the third grade. His strategy? Stay close, win her over.

En medio del aquelarre de una familia hambrienta de sangre, la matriarca prepara a su nieta para convertirse en la próxima reina del carnaval. Al son de tambores y secretos, se revelan fuerzas ancestrales que ellas atraen y repelen.

Со временем серебряное зеркало работы венецианского мастера стало фамильной реликвией, передающейся из поколения в поколение по женской линии. В наши дни владелицей артефакта становится Людмила - дочь богатого предпринимателя, недавно потерявшая мужа, умершего при странных обстоятельствах. Скромная, безынициативная, всю жизнь она подчинялась воле жестокого отца.